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  • They understand the theories and underlying principles, but the sheer amount of data makes it impossible to actually verify it.

    An ELI5 comparison would be a hill of stones: you know when you throw more stones onto it, a “landslide” will occur and rearrange the hill. For a very small hill of 10 stones you may even be able to know input and output (“if I throw a stone there, the stones will be like this after the landslide”). But you cannot predict the same for a hill of 1000000 stones, even tho the “rules” are the same. You know what will happen, but you have no way to predict the outcome, or verify that everything went as expected.

    The theory / math is not the problem. The scale is.









  • I suspect the real reason is those older Kindles allowed to remove the DRM from any media loaded onto them via Amazon. Because the decryption key is the serial number written on the back of the device.

    If those devices are not supported anymore, they don’t need to issue these easily breakable DRM protected ebooks anymore.

    My apology if someone else wrote this before, or it’s been mentioned somewhere already. Didn’t read everything so far.